We're pleased to announce the third installment in our Cinematic Dialogs series, between directors Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan. Their conversation will be released with subtitles on our facebook page Wednesday June 23rd at 5pm Jerusalem Time. Be sure to check it out, and head over to palestinefilminstitute.org to see all three parts of their epic documentary, Route 181 (2003).
Michel Khleifi is a Palestinian filmmaker from Nazareth, whose pioneering films helped shape the trajectory of Palestine’s cinema. His debut Fertile Memory (1980) was the first feature to be shot in the West Bank, and his seminal Wedding in Galilee was awarded the International Critics Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1987. Since 1970 he has lived in Belgium, and has taught filmmaking at the Institute National superior des arts du spectacle (INSAS) in Brussels. His heterodox approach has produced a remarkable filmography of documentary and fiction works, exploring often unexpected elements within the multiplicity of Palestinian experiences.
Eyal Sivan is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in France. Born in 1964 in Haifa, he was raised in Jerusalem, and settled in Paris in 1985. An iconoclast among documentarians from Israel and known for his controversial films, he has directed more than 10 renowned political documentaries, including Izkor (1990), The Specialist (1999), and Jaffa, The Orange’s Clockwork (2009). He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based production company memento!, and recently co-authored the book ‘Un boycott légitime: Pour le BDS universitaire et culturel de l'État d'Israël.’
